Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that helps manage and optimize the delivery of web applications. It acts as an entry point for incoming traffic, distributing requests to multiple backend servers.
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Azure Bastion is a fully-managed PaaS service that provides secure and seamless RDP and SSH access to your virtual machines directly through the Azure portal, without exposing them to the public internet.
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The Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) is a comprehensive set of tools, best practices, and documentation designed to help organizations successfully migrate to the cloud and maximize their investment in Azure. CAF provides a structured approach to planning, implementing, and managing cloud adoption initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements. Whether you’re migrating workloads, modernizing applications, or building new cloud-native solutions, the framework offers actionable guidance at every stage of your cloud journey.
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Azure DNS is a domain name system (DNS) service that provides name resolution for resources within your VNet. It can be used to host your domain name zones and manage your DNS records.
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Azure ExpressRoute provides a dedicated private connection between your on-premises network and Azure, bypassing the public internet. This solution is ideal for enterprise-level connectivity that requires high bandwidth, low latency, and enhanced security.
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Azure Firewall is a cloud-based firewall service that provides network security and monitoring capabilities for your VNet. It can be used to create and enforce network security policies across multiple VNets and applications.
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Azure Key Vault is a cloud-based service for securely storing and managing cryptographic keys, secrets, and certificates, enabling developers to protect sensitive data and ensure controlled access to their applications and services.
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Azure Load Balancing is a core feature of Microsoft Azure’s cloud services, designed to distribute incoming network traffic across multiple resources, such as virtual machines (VMs) or containers. This ensures high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance for applications hosted in the Azure cloud. Load balancing helps you handle traffic efficiently, improve application performance, and maintain reliability even during failures or traffic spikes.
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Message queues are an essential component of modern cloud architectures, enabling asynchronous communication between services. In Azure, message queues allow decoupling of applications and systems, providing resilience, scalability, and flexibility. They are especially useful in distributed systems where components need to communicate reliably without being tightly integrated
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Message queues are an essential component of modern cloud architectures, enabling asynchronous communication between services. In Azure, message queues allow decoupling of applications and systems, providing resilience, scalability, and flexibility. They are especially useful in distributed systems where components need to communicate reliably without being tightly integrated
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This lab will demonstrate a simple point-to-site VPN setup in Azure using Azure Active Directory for authentication
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Routing in Azure involves directing traffic between different Azure resources and networks using routing tables, network security groups, and routing protocols such as BGP, to optimize performance, security, and availability.
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Remote connectivity enables the secure and efficient connection of on-premises networks, users, and cloud resources. It allows you to establish a reliable link between your on-premises environment and Azure, or between different Azure regions, enabling workloads to communicate seamlessly. This document covers the types of remote connectivity methods for on-premises-to-Azure connections, single-user remote access, and the devices (appliances) that facilitate these connections. Additionally, it highlights security considerations and the impact of downtime on these remote connectivity solutions.
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Routing in Azure involves directing traffic between different Azure resources and networks using routing tables, network security groups, and routing protocols such as BGP, to optimize performance, security, and availability.
6 minute read
An Azure subnet is a logical subdivision of an Azure virtual network used to group resources together and isolate traffic within a defined range of IP addresses.
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Divide the VNet into subnets based on the type of resources they will host, such as networking, host types, or for growth. This will help to isolate and secure different types of traffic.
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A Virtual Network (VNet) is a logically isolated network in the cloud
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A Virtual Network Gateway is a virtual network appliance that provides a VPN connection to on-premises networks, or to other virtual networks within Azure.
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VNet peering is a feature in Azure that allows you to connect two virtual networks in the same region or different regions using Microsoft’s backbone network. VNet peering enables resources in both VNets to communicate as if they were in the same network.
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A simple example of VNet peering in Azure using a classic hub-spoke model where the two spoke vNets cannot peer together directly
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An Azure Service Principal (SPN) is a security identity used by applications and services to access Azure resources.
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Azure Security Services is a comprehensive suite of tools and features designed to safeguard cloud-based applications and infrastructure, providing threat protection, data security, and compliance management in a unified platform.
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